2011년 3월 21일 월요일

Literary Devices found in "I Have a Dream"

Alliterationpage1. capital to cash a checkpage2. dark and desolate sweltering summer marvelous militancypage3. sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together color of their skin but by the content of their character

Anaphora.page 1. "one hundred years later" four timespage 2. "Now is the time" four times "We cannot" two timespage 3. "We can not be satisfied" five times "Go back to ~"six timespage 3-4. "I have a dream" nine timespage 4. "With this faith" three times "Let freedom ring" ten times

Metaphor."America has given the Negro people a bad check ~ security of justice" : check = freedom, humanity.

"we will be able to transfomr~knowing that we will be free one day"jangling discords=discrimination against Blacksbeautiful sympphony of brotherhood=equality

Ethos "Five score years ago" - Emancipation Proclamation"When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence""Nineteen sixty-three""justice rolls down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream"-Bible

Pathos"I have a dream that my four little children will one day ~ by the content of their character""Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last"(not just the content itself but the tone and the mood are appealing to the audience's emotions)"But one hundred years later, ~ And so we've come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.""The marvelous new militancy ~ inextricably bound to our freedom."